Dmitry Gurin

Dmitry Gurin specialises in international human rights law and sanctions. He is a Senior Legal Advisor at the European Prison Litigation Network, which he joined in 2022. He has over 13 years of experience in international litigation. He previously served as a lawyer at the Registry of the ECHR (2016-2020), and has represented both applicants and governments in proceedings before the Court - initially (2011-2015) as a lawyer at the Office of the Russian Government Agent to the ECtHR, and, since 2021, as a human rights lawyer with international NGOs.
Since 2021, Dmitry has also been engaged in human rights advocacy, first as a senior lawyer at Memorial Human Rights Centre and later at EPLN. In parallel with his litigation work, he has contributed to legal education and training, teaching legal professionals and students as an independent expert for the Council of Europe, as an associate professor at the Russian State University of Justice (2012-2015), and, since 2023, as a lecturer at the Free University, where he delivered a course on criminal policy.

From Wagner to Africa Corps: ambiguity of the legal status

By Dmitry Gurin / June 4, 2025

This post forms part of the Wagner Symposium hosted by the Armed Groups and International Law blog. The introductory post can be found here. The symposium seeks to foster deeper discussion on how best to address the Wagner Group and its affiliated entities. For nearly a decade, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group evolved from a small private …

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